Don’t You Evah EP Debuts #1 on Billboard Singles Sales Chart

Following on a standing-room-only U.S. tour that culminated in the Don’t You Evah EP entering Billboard’s singles sales chart at #1, Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, Eric Harvey and Rob Pope-collectively known as Spoon-have confirmed their final live engagements of 2008.

This last run of Spoon shows will be preceded by a May 3 Britt Daniel solo performance at the Belly Up in Solana Beach CA. From there, the full band will be headlining the KNRK Pet Aid Benefit in Troutdale OR, playing their biggest ever New York show July 15 at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, appearing at the Mile High and Pitchfork festivals, making their debut at the Hollywood Bowl September 20 supporting Beck, and concluding with a three-night residency at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco-the last dates of the tour and first Spoon SF headline engagement since the July 2007 release of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Tickets for the Fillmore shows go on sale to the general public May 11.

These dates will mark the close of more than a year’s worth of touring in support of Spoon’s sixth full-length studio album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, which was Spoon’s first Top 10 album and most acclaimed release of their career. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga’s U.S. sales are now approaching 300,000, the band’s biggest ever coverage has run in the likes of TIME and THE NEW YORKER, Best of 2007 placements have included NPR, GQ, NEW YORK, ROLLING STONE, PITCHFORK, BLENDER, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, SPIN THE ONION, PASTE and the WASHINGTON POST, and Oct. 6 marked the band’s debut appearance on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.

The full itinerary for the May-September dates is as follows:

Sat May 3rd
Solana Beach, CA
Belly Up (Britt Daniel solo)

Fri June 13th
Troutdale, OR
Edgefield Amphitheater (KNRK Pet Aid 2008)

Tue July 15th
Brooklyn, NY
Prospect Park

Sat July 19th
Denver, CO
Mile High Festival

Sun July 20th
Chicago, IL
Pitchfork Music Festival

Sat Sep 20th
Hollywood, CA
Hollywood Bowl

Mon Sep 22nd
San Francisco, CA
Fillmore Theatre

Tue Sep 23rd
San Francisco, CA
Fillmore Theatre

Wed Sep 24th
San Francisco, CA
Fillmore Theatre

For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man tel 212 343 0740 e-mail laura@nastylittleman.com

Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett & Chen Shi-Zheng Present
MONKEY: JOURNEY TO THE WEST
U.S. PREMIERE MAY 22-JUNE 8
AT 2008 SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA IN CHARLESTON, SC

London Premiere July 23-26 At The Royal Opera House

Following sold-out runs in Manchester and Paris, Director Chen Shi-Zheng and GORILLAZ masterminds Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s adaptation of MONKEY: JOURNEY TO THE WEST will make its Stateside debut with a May 22 preview performance followed by 17 shows staged May 23 -June 8 all at the 2008 Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. The show will open in London two months later at the Royal Opera House.

MONKEY: JOURNEY TO THE WEST was first staged June 28, 2007 in the UK at the inaugural Manchester International Festival, whose director Alex Poots suggested that world-renowned theatre, opera and film director Shi-Zheng enlist GORILLAZ co-creators Albarn and Hewlett to provide unique, modern musical and visual interpretations of the themes and characters of this most beloved work of Chinese folklore.

The result is a new opera for the 21st century based on an ancient Chinese legend reworked as a dazzling spectacle involving nearly 40 Chinese circus acrobats, martial artists and singers from China with an orchestra of Western and traditional Chinese instruments. Developed in Beijing, Paris, Berlin and London the show has had sell-out runs in Manchester and Paris.

MONKEY: JOURNEY TO THE WEST is performed in Mandarin with subtitles, its storyline chronicling the Monkey King’s journey to enlightenment as it takes him undersea, to decadent banquets in heaven, through encounters with Spider Maidens and Skeleton Demons, and eventually to paradise. Hewlett’s renditions of MONKEY’s cacophony of characters combine with Albarn’s debut opera score’s deft integration of western and traditional Chinese instrumentation to create a wholly engrossing new universe that reinvents a legend with a thrilling combination of music and action.

Chen Shi-Zheng’s previous credits range from Chinese opera and theatre to the Hollywood movie Dark Matter (starring Meryl Streep). Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are the co-creators of award-winning virtual band Gorillaz, whose two albums Gorillaz and Demon Days have amassed global sales of over 10 million, the latter of which spawned the Demon Days Live extravaganza, a tribute to the animated group featuring guest performers ranging from Dennis Hopper to the late Ike Turner, performed a total of five times each at the Manchester Opera House and New York City’s Apollo Theater.

About Spoleto Festival USA
Spoleto Festival USA has firmly established itself as one of the world’s major arts festivals since its inception in 1977. For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolina’s historic theatres, churches and outdoor spaces with over 100 performances by renowned artists and emerging performers in disciplines ranging from opera, theater, music theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral and jazz music, as well as the visual arts. For more information, please visit www.spoletousa.org.

Como Te Llama? is the new album from Albert Hammond, Jr. and cohorts Matt Romano, Marc Philippe Eskenazi and Josh Lattanzi, and will be released July 8th.

Following his feted 2007 solo debut Yours To Keep, Albert Hammond, Jr. and his merry men return with a new album Como Te Llama? (or “What’s Your Name?” if your Spanish is a little rusty). The title, rung out of casual conversation between Albert and Matt over some vino tinto, hints at the classic, summery music held within.

The record was recorded over 5 weeks at Electric Lady Studios and produced by Albert along with engineer Gus Oberg and drummer Romano. “I’m really proud of the power this record has,” says Albert. “I feel like my melodies and song arrangements have matured. Lyrically, I tried to have the words flow out more freely and not try to write one song but many. I would just sing and sing and then arrange the words afterwards.”

From the heavy riffage of “The Boss Americana”, the woozy charm of lilting instrumental “Spooky Couch” to the bright, reggae-bounce of “Borrowed Time”, it’s clear that Como Te Llama? is perhaps the boldest, most eclectic and ambitious record of Albert’s career. “My favorite songs would be ‘Borrowed Time’, ‘Victory At Monterey’ and ‘You Won’t Be Fooled By This’” says Albert. “I love the whole record, but they change day by day, it’s like deciding what you want to eat.” “GfC” will be the first single from the album.

Musically, Albert’s band played a much greater role in the creative process of the new record as he explains; “Every one of the band members brought his or her personality to the music. Even if they played a part I had written they made it their own, I’d get it back and arrange all these new ideas into a better song then we had before. Marc represents youth and curiosity. Josh represents age and wisdom and Matt is the best friend that helps me communicate the rhythm of the music. He’s the spark. I love sharing my music with these tasty motherfuckers!”

Additional personnel were added to the record in the form of Sean Lennon’s piano on “Spooky Couch” and the string quartet of Earl Maneein (violin), Matt Szemela (violin), Jon Weber (viola) and Jessie Reagen (cello) on multiple tracks. Also, the shadows of The Kinks, The Clash and Crazy Horse-era Neil Young were cast over Albert’s songwriting on the record; “Not so much that the album sounds like any of those bands, its just they gave me a new way to express my songwriting.”

With a tour penciled for summer, the band are in exuberant spirits, as Albert reveals; “Our goal is to tour this album every where we can, get into those cracks and fill them up with music!”

Track listing for Como Te Llama? is below. For more information contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at Nasty Little Man.

01 Bargain Of A Century
02 In My Room
03 Lisa
04 GfC
05 The Boss Americana
06 Rocket
07 Victory At Monterey
08 You Won’t Be Fooled By This
09 Spooky Couch
10 Borrowed Time
11 G Up
12 Miss Myrtle
13. Feed Me Jack Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Peter Sellers

UNIQUE TOUR FAN CLUB OFFERS Best Seats Available Exclusively via Limited NIN.com Personalized Pre-Sale

Nine Inch Nails has secured extremely limited allotments of the guaranteed best possible seats to every headlining show on the band’s upcoming tour and reserved them for pre-sale via NIN.com. Beginning roughly 72 hours prior to each general on-sale, Nine Inch Nails fans registering under their legal names at NIN.com will be offered exclusive advance access to these prime online slots tickets.

Additionally, in an initiative to protect NIN fans from scalpers and ticket brokers, every pre-sale ticket will be personalized with the purchaser’s legal name printed on the ticket. Tickets will not be available until night of show, at which point they will be waiting for the purchaser and his/her party at designated will calls at separate entrances to be used exclusively by NIN.com pre-sale ticket holders.

Government-issued ID matching the name printed on the ticket will be required for venue entry night of show. NO tickets will be mailed in advance.

Ticket quantities are extremely limited and available on a first come first served basis.

For further information regarding tour dates, pre-sales, on-sales and other major developments, keep checking back at NIN.com.

Autumn Fallin’ Out Now

“(Four stars)…the kind of surgical precision rarely seen since Bob Dylan’s wicked youth.”-SPIN

After months of touring the UK in support of her finally-available-in-the-U.S. debut Autumn Fallin’ -not to mention her recent television debut on LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN–JAYMAY has decided to make her first extensive trek beyond the coasts and grace the greater U.S. with her presence!

JAYMAY’s recent stint at South By Southwest bodes well for the tour, with her having been singled out by NPR at one of the “three most exciting artists” of the 1600 acts playing SXSW. But better to let live footage do the talking:

NPR performance of Grey or Blue:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88670991

Lonely Men Built Lonely Cities:

One May Die So Lonely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrYU6ZpoGGM&feature=related

She’ll be doing another run of May dates in Europe with Jens Lekman, and then will be returning to her hometown NYC to kick off the U.S. tour.

With Jens Lekman:
May 12 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
May 13 – Newcastle, UK – The Cluny
May 14 – Leeds, UK – Woodhouse Club
May 15 – Glasgow, UK – Oran Mor
May 19 – Manchester, UK – Academy 3
May 21 – Birmingham, UK – Glee Club
May 23 – Belfast, UK – The Black Box
May 24 – Galway, Ireland – Roisin Dubh
May 25 – Dublin, Ireland – The Village

With Fink:
June 10 – NEW YORK, NY – Bowery Ballroom
June 11 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – Tin Angel
June 12 – ARLINGTON, VA – Iota
June 13 – CLEVELAND, OH – B-Side
June 14 – PITTSBURGH, PA – Club Cafe
June 16 – CHICAGO, IL – Schuba’s
June 18 – LOS ANGELES, CA – Troubadour
June 19 – SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Cafe du Nord
June 20 – PORTLAND, OR – Doug Fir
June 21 – SEATTLE, WA – Tractor Tavern

Dates and venues have been confirmed for the second leg of Radiohead’s upcoming North American tour. They are:

August 1 – Lollapalooza – Chicago, IL
August 3 – Verizon Wireless Music Center – Indianapolis, IN
August 4 – Blossom Music Center – Cleveland, OH
August 6 – Parc Jean Drapeau – Montreal, QC
August 8 – All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Park – Jersey City, NJ
August 9 – All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Park – Jersey City, NJ
August 12 – Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
August 13 – Tweeter Center For the Performing Arts – Mansfield, MA
August 15 – Molson Amphitheatre – Toronto, ON
August 19 – Thunderbird Stadium – Vancouver, BC
August 20 – White River Amphitheatre – Auburn, WA
August 22 – Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival @ Golden Gate Park – San Francisco, CA
August 24 – Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles, CA
August 25 – Hollywood Bowl – Los Angeles, CA
August 27 – Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre – Chula Vista, CA
August 28 – Santa Barbara Bowl – Santa Barbara, CA

With the exception of the festivals (Lollapalooza, All Points West, Outside Lands), pre-sale for the above dates will begin April 9 with general on-sale following April 12.

Support for the headline dates will be Grizzly Bear August 3-15 and Liars August 19-28 (as well as the first run of U.S. dates in May).

Nine Inch Nails 2008 touring lineup has been completed. Returning member Robin Finck and new addition Rich Fownes will join Trent Reznor, Alessandro Cortini and Josh Freese for a world tour beginning July in North America.

Finck has served in numerous touring configurations of NIN, from tours supporting The Downward Spiral (1994-1997) to The Fragile (2000-2001). More recently, he played in Guns N Roses. Fownes has been performing with UNKLE, and has been a member of With Scissors and The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.

The upcoming tour will feature the live debut of material from the recently released Ghosts I-IV alongside songs spanning the entire NIN catalogue.

Confirmed dates thus far for NIN’s 2008 world tour are listed below. Additional dates and on-sales will be announced shortly.

07/25/08 – Pemberton, BC – Pemberton Festival
07/26/08 – Seattle, WA – Key Arena at Seattle Center
07/28/08 – Edmonton, ALB – Rexall Place
07/29/08 – Calgary, ALB – Pengrowth Saddledome
07/31/08 – Winnipeg, MAN – MTS Centre
08/02/08 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
08/05/08 – Toronto, ONT – Air Canada Centre
08/07/08 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena
08/08/08 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center
08/12/08 – Knoxville, TN – Knoxville Civic Coliseum
08/13/08 – Duluth, GA – Gwinnett Arena
08/15/08 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Center
08/16/08 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
08/18/08 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center
08/20/08 – St. Louis, MO – Scottrade Center
08/22/08 – Cleveland, OH – Quicken Loans Arena
08/23/08 – Auburn Hills, MI – Palace of Auburn Hills
08/27/08 – East Rutherford, NJ – Izod Center
08/29/08 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Center
08/31/08 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena
09/02/08 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheater
09/03/08 – Salt Lake City, UT – The E Center of West Valley
09/05/08 – Oakland, CA – Oracle Arena
09/06/08 – Los Angeles, CA – The Forum

For more information please contact Steve Martin Or Amy Grote at 212 343 0740, or amy@nastylittleman.com

2-Disc Edition Features Rare Import Tracks, B-Sides, Previously Unreleased Live And Demo Tracks, Newly Recorded “Your House 2007″

“[Jimmy Eat World] conjure that shock of near-bubblegum catchiness, airtight ensemble attack and bittersweet mingling of anguish and uplifting melody that many bands fake but few can pull off… Jimmy Eat World have managed to be radical by just being sincere.”
– ROLLING STONE lead review of Bleed American, Aug. 16, 2001

“Tuneful, retro alt-rock-Brilliant!”-BLENDER, BEST OF 2001

“An eclectic sonic feast (Album of the week)”-PEOPLE, August 6, 2001

For every artist paralyzed with fear and frustration as to how to “make it” in today’s terrifying marketplace, the story behind Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American provides both inspiration and a lesson in Perseverance 101.

Circa August 1999, things couldn’t look much more dire for the Mesa AZ foursome. Jim Adkins, Rick Burch, Zach Lind and Tom Linton had seen their two major label full lengths, Static Prevails and Clarity, ignored by mainstream media, radio and their label Capitol Records, who had just unceremoniously dropped them.

However, this same turn of events that has broken the will–and the bank–of many a lesser artist found Jimmy Eat World celebrating its newfound independence with a self-promoted five-week tour of Europe. That their label had never released Jimmy Eat World material overseas was hardly an obstacle: The band began buying its own records from the label’s distributor and shipping them to Europe independently. Within a year, Jimmy Eat World was playing Europe’s biggest festivals as Clarity hit the German charts, self-releasing and independently releasing compilations and EPs, doing Japanese licensing deals, and touring touring touring… ultimately channeling everything back into the recording of Bleed American.

Having recorded it on their own dime as a dedication to the fans that had kept them alive during the lean times, the members of Jimmy Eat World couldn’t possibly have predicted that Bleed American would become a platinum-plus, MTV VMA-nominated bona fide career breakthrough smash. Released in July 2001, in a world with no iTunes store, no MySpace, no Facebook, and charts still utterly dominated by the Britneys, N Syncs and Limp Bizkits, four down to earth guys from Arizona who’d just been dropped by a major label improbably rode this self-funded album to platinum status, their biggest tours to date and an appearance on Saturday Night Live.

For anyone looking to do the same, the path is simple: Just create songs as heartfelt, tuneful and instantly indelible as Bleed American’s title track, “The Middle,” “Sweetness,” “A Praise Chorus” or “The Authority Song,” all of which remain staples of the band’s live set to this day. And for those who crave something other than the perfect upbeat and optimistic pop anthem, the minor key whisper-to-a-scream “Get It Faster,” the five and a half minute “Cautioners” and the somber “My Sundown” all stand as proof of Jimmy Eat World’s daring and depth.

This 2-disc deluxe edition of Bleed American not only restores the record’s original title-the band re-titled the record Jimmy Eat World following the events of 9/11 and the subsequent deployment of U.S. troops to the Middle East-but also provides further documentation of Jimmy Eat World’s powerful and prolific output circa 2001-2002: Obscure fan favorites “No Sensitivity,” “Softer” and “(Splash) Turn Twist,” the collectors item holiday single “Last Christmas”/”Firestarter,” the band’s cover of Guided By Voices’ “Game of Pricks,” and the piece de resistance, the never before heard “Your House 2007.” The stunning reimagining of the Bleed American track the band debuted on its 2007 stripped down semi-acoustic tour elicited an unexpectedly intense response from fans at the shows and later on message boards, moving the band to commit the arrangement to tape to honor its fans if nothing else…

The 2-disc Bleed American deluxe collects all this and more for the first time in one place, creating an essential and comprehensive document for any fan of Jimmy Eat World-or any fan of what USA TODAY called “euphoric, uplifting, reassuring rock.”

DISC ONE: THE ORIGINAL ALBUM
1 BLEED AMERICAN
2 A PRAISE CHORUS
3 THE MIDDLE
4 YOUR HOUSE
5 SWEETNESS
6 HEAR YOU ME
7 IF YOU DON’T, DON’T
8 GET IT FASTER
9 CAUTIONERS
10 THE AUTHORITY SONG
11 MY SUNDOWN
BONUS TRACKS
12 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS
from the Good To Go EP
13 NO SENSITIVITY
from the German “The Middle” single
14 (SPLASH) TURN TWIST
from The Middle (And More) EP

DISC TWO: B-SIDES AND BONUS TRACKS
1 CAUTIONERS early version
from the Good To Go EP
2 FIRESTARTER
b-side of the “Last Christmas” single
3 GET IT FASTER sessions @ aol version
previously unreleased
4 BLEED AMERICAN live
from The Middle/A Praise Chorus Tour EP
5 A PRAISE CHORUS live
from the Good To Go EP
6 SOFTER live
from the Good To Go EP
7 THE MIDDLE acoustic
from The Middle/A Praise Chorus Tour EP
8 IF YOU DON’T, DON’T XFM session
from the UK “The Middle” single
9 GAME OF PRICKS Radio 1 session
from the UK “The Middle” single
10 THE AUTHORITY SONG demo
from the German “Bleed American” single
11 MY SUNDOWN inner ear recording
from Believe In What You Want
12 SWEETNESS live
previously unreleased
13 LAST CHRISTMAS
limited edition single
14 MY SUNDOWN demo
from the German “Bleed American” single
15 SPANGLE
from the Good To Go EP
16 HEAR YOU ME inner ear recording
from Believe In What You Want
17 THE MIDDLE early demo
from the German “The Middle” single
18 YOUR HOUSE 2007
previously unreleased

For more information on this special release and Jimmy Eat World’s current co-headline tour with Paramore, please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at Nasty Little Man.

Foo Fighters have announced that they will headline Virgin Festival 2008 at Toronto’s Island Park. They have also added to their US tour itinerary with newly announced dates at East Ruthorford, NJ among others. The band will continue to announce new dates over the next few weeks. Supergrass will be supporting on all U.S. summer shows.

The U.S. summer tour extends what is shaping up to be an extraordinary year on the road – the Foos recently sold out their first ever show at Madison Square Garden, have sold out two June dates at London’s Wembley Stadium, and between now and July will visit Japan, Finland, and Australia, among others. The reviews of the band’s recently concluded American tour were glowing; the Houston Chronicle called the Foos “a band at the peak of its powers, in all respects,” and the Boston Globe described ringleader Dave Grohl as “the funniest, savviest, and most exciting frontman in rock ‘n’ roll in 2008.”

Stay tuned to FooFighters.com for ticket information and further updates. Newly announced dates are underlined below. For more info on the tour and the Grammy-winning album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at Nasty Little Man.

July 9 – Seattle WA – Key Arena
July 10 – Portland OR – Rose Garden Arena
July 14 & 15 – Morrison CO – Red Rocks
July 17 – Oklahoma City OK – Ford Center (rescheduled from earlier this year)
July 19 – Kansas City MO – Kemper Arena
July 20 – St. Louis MO – Scottrade Center
July 22 – Grand Rapids MI – Van Andel Arena
July 23 – Indianapolis IN – Conseco Field House
July 25 – Cleveland OH – Quicken Loans Arena
July 26 – Pittsburgh PA – Peterson Events Center
July 29 – East Rutherford NJ – Izod Center
August 9 – Baltimore MD – Pimlico Race Course – Virgin Mobile Festival
September 6 – Toronto ON – Virgin Festival

Radiohead, iTunes and Garageband are giving fans the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude” at http://www.radioheadremix.com

To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’* from the song will be available to purchase from iTunes. The ’stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. Fans can mix them in any way they like, either by adding their own beats and instrumentation, or just remixing the original parts.

Fans who purchase all five ’stems’ from iTunes during the first week they’re available, will be sent an access code to a GarageBand file ready to open in GarageBand or Logic. However, you don’t need GarageBand to do a remix, all the stems are available in iTunes Plus and compatible with several music software platforms.

Finished mixes can be uploaded to http://www.radioheadremix.com where the public will listen and vote for their favourite remix (voting ends May 1st). Fans can also create a widget allowing votes from their own website, Facebook or MySpace page to be counted as ‘mix votes’ back on radioheadremix.com.

Nude is out now in the UK on CD, 7″ and download.

*’stems’ are the component parts of the song.